Last night we sat in Independence House, Helensburgh watching the Salmond v Darling debate on STV. At the time we all felt a mixture of frustration and deflation because we expected Alex Salmond to wipe the floor with Darling; never the most charismatic politician with more skeletons in his closet than your average morgue. The immediate reaction from the studio…
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Scotland say McCrone – Westminster says McCrony!
On 11th May the Herald publish another article on the McCrone reports, and there were a number. [read the article] These reports keep cropping up like a bad penny but for a very good reason. The ‘bad penny’ hasn’t dropped yet. There are still people in Scotland, who call themselves Scots but they seem to lack the Scottish ‘gift’ of…
Scotland’s Referendum – The New Scottish Enlightenment, the Enlightenment of the People
When I was at school in Glasgow, history was a kind of non subject. Being a bit of a rebel and not always ‘well behaved?’ I was often punished by being sent to the history room or the school library where I was given a history book to read. This happened several times when I refused to play football for the…
Scotlands’ referendum – here’s the GUARANTEE
Imagine voting in a referendum and getting a guarantee? I am not talking about the short term selfish trickery of Westminster and the Better Together campaign. I mean a real guarantee. Not like the guarantee on your TV that runs out in 3 years. Not the false guarantee that our pensions are safer with Westminster. I mean a guarantee that remains forever;…